It is bringing Google TV more tightly into the Android mix, engineering complementary components of in-home networks to improve ease-of-use for online content.

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This means mixing and matching components so that the same engineering and parts can be combined like Lego to produce a wide range of different vehicles.

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Drawing on more than 150 years of materials science and process engineering knowledge, Corning creates and makes keystone components that enable high-technology systems for consumer electronics, mobile emissions control, telecommunications and life sciences.

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So, if evolution is to produce change, it must work more by the accretion of new components than by the continuous re-engineering of existing ones.

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Currently, many of these power electronic components are expensive and require significant levels customized engineering.

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According to Dr David Hammond of Cranfield's School of Engineering, a large build up of ice can alter the shape and performance of vital aircraft components.

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Instead of duplicating engineering work from one country to the next, GM's worldwide units now share basic components and work together to design vehicles that with a few tweaks can be sold anywhere in the world.

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Most important, he says, Doosan is providing engineering, procurement and construction services, or EPC, for the Rabigh plants, as well as the key components.

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When I was studying engineering, I wired a circuit board incorrectly, and a small mushroom cloud of smoke rose from one of the components.

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